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Dan Fumano: New chapter for old Army & Navy building Analysis: The shelter sleeping pod is one of many examples, big and small, of COVID-19 spurring innovations that could outlast the pandemic. Author of the article: Dan Fumano Publishing date: May 16, 2021 • 2 hours ago • 4 minute read • Duncan Higgon, senior manager of housing at the Portland Hotel Community Services Society, left, and Tanya Fader, director of housing for the PHS, at the former Army & Navy department store in Vancouver s Downtown Eastside on May 13. Photo by Jason Payne /PNG Article content While Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside is still feeling the loss of the Army & Navy, the discount department store’s former home will soon open its doors to a new incarnation that will once again serve the community, but in a new way. ....
The Dance Centre will showcase online performances in the lead up to International Dance Day on April 29. But the Army and Navy chain of stores across western Canada couldn’t survive the COVID-19 pandemic, and the Gastown location has been sitting empty since June 2020. Homelessness also increased across B.C. during the pandemic, and in February the province announced the building on West Hastings would open as a shelter for unhoused people. It’s part of a strategy to secure enough units of housing to close down a large tent city at Strathcona Park. Renovations are now underway, and the building will open by mid-May at the latest, although operator PHS Community Services Society hopes the shelter will be open by April 30. That’s also the deadline the park board has given for the tent city at Strathcona Park to leave. ....
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BC Housing Goes on Vancouver Hotel Buying Spree The agency has bought the Patricia Hotel and five other properties to house people who are homeless, including Strathcona Park campers. Jen St. Denis is The Tyee’s Downtown Eastside reporter. Find her on Twitter @JenStDen. SHARES The Patricia Hotel on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside will provide more than 100 new supported housing units. Photo by GoToVan, Creative Commons licensed. BC Housing has scooped up three more hotels in Vancouver, following news earlier this week that federal funding would create permanent supportive housing units at three other downtown properties. Announcements, Events & more from Tyee and select partners ....
Isolation RVs Fill a Need for Homeless People During Pandemic Options are limited for unhoused people awaiting test results, so one service agency has turned to motor homes. Jen St. Denis is The Tyee’s Downtown Eastside reporter. Find her on Twitter @JenStDen. This reporting beat is made possible by the Local Journalism Initiative. SHARES PHS housing manager Duncan Higgon in an RV set up for COVID-19 isolation. Photo by Jen St. Denis. A Vancouver social service agency has bought two recreational vehicles to help people who are homeless or living in shelters to self-isolate while they wait for the result of COVID-19 tests. ....